German Officer Meets His Former British Prisoner in Shanghai: Coffee in a Dug-out 'Through one of the most unusual coincidences of chance meetings ever recorded, a British flying officer who was shot down by German aeroplanes in Flanders in 1917, has met in Shanghai 17 years later' the German artillery officer who took him prisoner and gave him coffee before he was marched off into internment.
'The two men in this amazing ep!- sode, marked by war-time courtesies which neither forgets, are Captain 'William Turner-Coles, who served in the Royal Flying Corps during the war, and Mr. E, Fuerholzer, manager of the Trans-Ocean' News 'Agency in Shanghai, who was Lieuten-and and Adjutant' in the Bavarian artillery during the war.
'The facts are simple: On June 17, 1917, Captain Turner-Coles, in an "machine, was over the German' lines at Radinghem, Flanders, uth of Armentieres, on a reconnaissauce flight over the powerful batteries of which Mr. Fuerholzer was then adjutant, He was attacked by six or seven German machines belonging to Von Richthoven's squadron, and despite his efforts to return to the British lines, he was shot down and miraculously escaped death or rious injury. Lieutenant Fuerholger witnessed the combat and pulled Captain, Turner-Coles from the wreckage and took him to his dugout, where he Communication ws means of notes written to in English as Mr, Fuerholzer thea was not proficient in spoken English, In this way, the two men became acquainted with each other and the British flying officer gave his Ger-for his name and address, which was at Henley-Thames. Later, the German aviation authorities rived and Captain Turner-Coles was taken off to an internment camp.
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